Top 100 Quotes About Fists
#1. I clench my fists and try not to scream and I tuck my friends in my heart and
revenge
I think
has never looked so sweet.
Tahereh Mafi
#2. 6One hand full of rest is better than two fists full of labor and striving after wind.
Anonymous
#3. When it comes to fighting for your rights don't fold hands but turn them into fists.
Amit Abraham
#4. There are also silent drinkers with big chapped red fists around silent glasses, huddled over, figuring out ways to get their wives outa their thoughts and you can see their mouths lengthen down and draw sorrow almost as you look.
Jack Kerouac
#6. I was born I came into this world with empty fists. After seventy years I am going away from this world with empty fists.
Mangalam Shiva
#7. I teach kids that want to be tough that their fists are not the way.
George Foreman
#8. I always thought I'd live in Paris, Rome, Madrid - at least for a while. It strikes me now that I didn't dream of Zanzibar or Papeete or Tashkent: even my fantasy was cautious, a good girl's fantasy, a blanched almond of a fantasy. Today, even that is enough to clench my fists and curl my toes. In
Claire Messud
#9. The day never goes by for men and nations to make asses of themselves and take to the fists.
L.M. Montgomery
#10. even opened the box?" She parked her fists on her trim little hips. "I have had a very bad day." "Well, so have I." He grinned. "But you just made me laugh, so it's starting to improve." She gave him a glare. "I don't find this funny." He raised the can
Shirley Jump
#11. I love punching the ceiling with my fists when I'm lost or I can't find a parking space.
Laura Kightlinger
#12. As soon as the words slip past my lips, I wish I could grab them with my hands and crush them in my fists.
But I can't.
The words are there.
Beth Revis
#13. Christian turned around and penetrated Slater with his obsidian eyes. "Better talk or I'll introduce you to my two best friends," he said harshly, holding up his fists. "Meet thunder and lightning. If you don't start talking, it's going to storm all over your face.
Dannika Dark
#14. Battered by the mind noise, huddled in the back with eyes closed and fists clenched, the old Melissa had understood pep rallies about as well as a bird sucked through a jet engine comprehended aircraft design.
Scott Westerfeld
#15. But Aiden sprang from the pool jacked on adrenaline. He screamed and pumped his fists as if he were trying to win first prize at the "Fuck Yeah Festival.
Matt K. Turner
#16. Andrea stared at me. "You're not taking me seriously!"
"That's probably because you're not excited enough," Derek said. "You should clench your fists like they do in the movies, shake them, and yell, 'This is bigger than any of us! It goes all the way to the top!
Ilona Andrews
#17. Yeah, you were doing a real bang-up job of it. I particularly liked the way you were bruising his fists with your face. A few minutes more and I'm sure your heart would have been on the attack ... after it was ripped from your chest. (Kat)
Sherrilyn Kenyon
#18. She just kept hitting me in the head with her fists, over, and over and over.
David Gest
#19. Tucker, I want to tell you a secret." She curled my hand into a fist and showed it to me. "Life is a battle, but you can't fight it with your fists." She gently tapped me on the chin with my fist and then put her hand on my chest, " You got to figt it with your heart.
Charles Martin
#20. Tyson balled his fists and slammed them into the Bulls face. BAD COW!
Rick Riordan
#22. He stands watching me, motionless in those drawstring pants, his legs braced in a fighting stance, his eyes bursting with need. His broad shoulders jerk with his breaths, and he curls his fingers into fists at his sides. The deep roughness of his voice scrapes my flesh. Come here then.
Katy Evans
#23. Hugo, child, have I ever said that I loved you? Do you know that your fists are clenched? You aren't going to strike me-' She had smiled. Then he had burst into tears. He had never mentioned love either, but it had not occurred to him that it might not be identical with what they had enjoyed.
Glenway Wescott
#24. Dear God,
I am so afraid to open my clenched fists!
Who will I be when I have nothing left to hold on to?
Who will I be when I stand before you with empty hands?
Please help me to gradually open my hands
and to discover that I am not what I own,
but what you want to give me.
Henri J.M. Nouwen
#25. Forgetting about you was the worst part." At first, Thomas thought it was another message in his head; he squeezed his fists against his ears.
James Dashner
#26. We drove in silence for a while.
"Can I have a gun?" I asked.
"No!"
"Just a little one? For my handbag? It'll give me some street cred with the client."
"No! No! No!"
His clenched fists pounded the steering wheel with each word.
- heller 1
J.D. Nixon
#27. Bullying can be physical, verbal or emotional. Words and threats are just as painful as fists, especially with social media these days. For those of you who don't know, I was actually bullied as a young boy on one occasion,
Derek Hough
#28. As your older brother, it's my sacred duty to save you from yourself."
She brings her fists down on the table, making all the dinner plates jump. "The ONLY reason you're fifteen minutes older than me is because you cut in front of the line, as usual!
Neal Shusterman
#29. Try not to kill me with your love,
try not to break a glass wall
seeing everything,
but going unheard,
the words feel unspoken.
Crystals gleaming at our feet,
innocently joined by red fists
and a kiss.
Megan Hutchinson
#30. Tears began to surge up into her eyes, and she found herself doubling up her fists, with the thumbs inside, as she had done as a child; she felt her jaw wobble, and when she spoke her voice could hardly be heard.
Philip K. Dick
#31. My way to combat anything is just to walk straight into it with my fists up.
Mary-Louise Parker
#32. There's 6.5 billion people curled up like fists protesting death, but every breath we take has to be given back; a nine year old boy taught me that.
Shane Koyczan
#33. If Chisora wants to kiss me, OK, if he likes me so much, but the best answer for him will be an answer with a fist in the ring.
Vitali Klitschko
#34. The day will come when we strike you down," she's saying. "Mark my words. We will haunt your nightmares."
I clench my fists and fling an illusion of pain across her body. "I am the nightmare.
Marie Lu
#35. I don't get it. Scratch, bite, squeal, slap. Why do women fight like that? They've got fists. It's embarrassing to our entire gender.
J.D. Robb
#36. I want you, Zel. God knows how much I fucking want you." He dropped his eyes, glaring at his fists. "But I'm still struggling inside. I want to be gentle. To hold you and make love to you. But ... I won't be able to and I don't want to take you violently. Not today.
Pepper Winters
#37. He would have been a tall boy, but he could never get enough food to put meat on his bones. His mother died next. The people of Lykos did the Fading Dirge for them - a tragic thumping of fists against chests, fading slowly, slowly, till the fists, like her heart, beat no more and all dispersed. The
Pierce Brown
#38. I'm not going to star in every one of my movies. But I'm telling you [pounds fists] what I will bring to this film industry is the same thing I brought to the record industry when I came into it. Realism. Uncompromised, unconditional dog love.
DMX
#39. A politician lost an argument; he went on a rampage with his fists pointed towards the sky - a move which amounts to a search for a new self.
Duop Chak Wuol
#40. When you can't fix all your problems with your fists and the problems aren't solely physical, and you've got to deal with the emotional complexities of life and people, it's a really interesting development.
Antony Starr
#41. One can disintegrate the world by means of very strong light. For weak eyes the world becomes solid, for still weaker eyes it seems to develop fists, for eyes weaker still it becomes shamefaced and smashes anyone who dares to gaze upon it.
Franz Kafka
#42. I am a trembling mess from hip to knee. There is a terrible heat, a looseness in my innards that makes me want to dig my fists between my thighs. It is a confusing feeling - somewhere between diarrhoea and sex - this grief that is almost genital.
Anne Enright
#43. We'll see She-Hulk fighting evil everywhere from the boardroom to the Bowery, using her mind as much as her fists.
Charles Soule
#44. A true believer, indeed, need never draw a weapon, need never rise in argument, or howl in fury, or make fists, or roll in a mob to crush some helpless, innocent enemy. A true believer needs none of those things. How much of the world insists on living this lie? Blinking,
Steven Erikson
#45. All day long he was docile, intelligent, good, Though sometimes changing to a darker mood. He seemed hypocritical, could tell better lies, in the dark he saw dots of colors behind closed eyes, clenched fists, put his tongue out at his elder brother.
Arthur Rimbaud
#46. I'm inspired by my master's movie 'Kerd ma lui,' Bruce Lee's 'Fists of Fury,' and Jackie Chan's 'Police Story.'
Tony Jaa
#47. He struggled wildly and got one hand free just as a fist looped down into his face like a runaway moon.
Stephen King
#48. Braith lifted his head from her shoulder, kissed him. Centuries and her kiss still made him as weak as one of her fists to the face.
G.A. Aiken
#49. I have a question to ask you." Beth stretched one arm across the back of the seat, hoping she looked provocative. "And what is that, husband?" Ian leaned down, his body hemming her in. His large fists rested on the seat back behind her. "Do I love you?
Jennifer Ashley
#50. As individual fingers we can easily be broken, but all together we make a mighty fist.
Sitting Bull
#51. Your mama musta had to take a double dose of laxatives to bring you into this world, ya lyin' little turd," he growled, fists clenching at his sides.
Amy Cook
#52. This tower, patched unevenly with black ivy, arose like a mutilated finger from among the fists of knuckled masonry and pointed blasphemously at heaven. At night the owls made of it an echoing throat; by day it stood voiceless and cast its long shadow.
Mervyn Peake
#53. Bullys are the small group who should perish not by voilence, but by non violence, words not fists, thats the awnser to our problem.
Timothy Long
#54. When you denigrate people, they have two ways to fight back - with their fists and guns, or their mouths. And mouths are seemingly the easiest way to not get hit back. If people are laughing, they're not going to hit you.
Carl Reiner
#55. You ball up your fist each time you hear about an unfound injustice in the world. That makes me your brother.
Darnell Lamont Walker
#56. His heart overflowed with good intentions but his fists felt best covered in blood.
Debra Anastasia
#57. He frowned. "Jedi aren't without emotion. We're allowed to grieve."
"Perhaps," Ventress allowed, "but somehow I don't think most Jedi try to drown the pain with alcohol and slam their fists on the table.
Christie Golden
#58. He clenched his hands into fists and opened them again several times, as though strangling baby ducks.
Jim Butcher
#60. Those who never rebelled against God or at some point in their lives shaken their fists in the face of heaven, have never encountered God at all.
Catherine Marshall
#61. I've come off horses and fought in medieval battles using axes, hammers and swords as well as fists. Getting your teeth knocked out is an occupational hazard.
James Cosmo
#62. When you go to the other place, part of you doesn't come back.'
What other place, honey?' He placed his watch on the bedstand.
And the part of you that does?' She bit her lip and looked like she was about to punch herself in the face with both fists. 'Shouldn't.
Dennis Lehane
#63. The ages of muscle and miracle - of fists and faith - are passing away.
Robert G. Ingersoll
#64. Karate is a technique that permits one to defend himself with his bare hands and fists without weapons.
Gichin Funakoshi
#65. Etiquette was so confounding in this country. Still, looking at Mirabella-her fists balled together like small, white porcupines, her brows knitted in animal confusion-I felt a throb of compassion. How can people live like they do? I wondered. Then I congragulated myself. This was a Stage 3 thought.
Karen Russell
#66. Sin is a clenched fist and a blow in the face of God.
Joseph Parker
#67. If you strike the goads with your fists, your hands suffer most.
Plautus
#68. There are other ways to beat someone than with fists.
Kiersten White
#69. If a crowd can flinch, they flinch. More than a thousand men flinch under the fist of just one. I don't see what the women do.
Patrick Ness
#70. Life cannot be possessed. You cannot have it in your fist. If you want to have it, you have to keep your hands open.
Rajneesh
#71. I now realize that just because you can take a punch does not mean you must stand in front of a fist, particularly not when the fist is your own.
Iyanla Vanzant
#72. That's good. You see, boxing and writing are very similar. You get in the guard position, you decide to throw yourself into battle, you lift your fists, and you hurl yourself at your opponent. A book is more or less the same. A book is a battle.
Joel Dicker
#73. There were some folks - usually women - who claimed the smile that graced his sensuous lips when those fists connected with another man's flesh was enough to make any woman
Liliana Hart
#74. Let her out!" I screamed at the tree. I beat on its trunk with my muddy fists. "Let her out, or I'll bring you down! Fulmia!" I cried out in rage ...
Naomi Novik
#75. Just tolerate my little fist tugging on your forest chest
Fiona Apple
#76. I don't know if I would go so far to say that I would punch someone in the face, but I would definitely stand up for my lady. But sometimes it's more attractive to use your words than your fists.
Alex Pettyfer
#77. I have defeated this earthworm with my words. Imagine what I would have done with my fire breathing fists.
Charlie Sheen
#78. I don't know why, but for a second, my brain was sure that it would be Anna, that she'd be pounding the door down off its hinges with blackveined fists, ready to catch me with my pants down. But we were just doing dishes. My pants are firmly affixed.
Kendare Blake
#79. What is the world but a boxing ring where fools and devils put up their fists?
Catherynne M Valente
#80. But if you must be clever, then be clever. Be brave. Sleep with fists closed and shoot straight.
Catherynne M Valente
#81. I'm quite shocked by the recent British media stories about an alleged brawl between myself and Dereck Chisora. I am a professional prize fighter and let my fists do the talking only inside the ring. I don't want to comment on Chisora's psychological issues.
Wladimir Klitschko
#82. In 1973 I became heavyweight champion of the world with 38 victories, no defeats as a professional. You get to a point where you think you cannot lose. I felt like I had the greatest power with my fists, I was the strongest man in the world.
George Foreman
#83. The pain of hope dying is worse than his fists and boots.
R.L. LaFevers
#84. I think I'll throw her in the garbage!" Caleb announces and heads for the kitchen.
"No, put her in the recycle bin," Josie giggles.
"You can't recycle mommies!" I call out and gently hit Caleb's back with my fists.
Kristen Proby
#86. Onstage I've been hit by a grapefruit, beercans, eggs, spit, money, cigarette butts, Mandies, Quaaludes, joints, bras, panties, and a fist.
Iggy Pop
#87. Women are beginning to lose their identity. They have jumped with teeth clenched, fists braced and eyes aglow, into the competitive man's world. They're losing the vibrant quality of femininity, the aura of mystery.
Tony Curtis
#88. He throws his arms out over his head, fists clenched, and shouts: 'Open your eyes and look at me! I'm right bloody here!' He shouts all the things he hates and wants to change until his voice is hoarse. Then he nods over at me. 'Your turn.
Jennifer Niven
#89. Each of us comes into life with fists closed, set for aggressiveness and acquisition. But when we abandon life our hands are open; there is nothing on earth that we need, nothing the soul can take with it.
Fulton J. Sheen
#90. So ride on, my brothers, and rest in peace. Wherever you are, may you always have the sun on your back, your fists in the wind, and the road stretching out before you
Laura Kaye
#91. Gregori jolted back. "Snap! You couldn't control one measly mortal?"
Roman clenched his fists. "No."
Gregori slapped a hand against his brow. "Snap!"
"Why the hell are you snapping? Are you a turtle?" It was times like this that firing Gregori
seemed to be the wise choice.
Kerrelyn Sparks
#92. In order to overcome the spirit that creates war, mothers must begin in the tender years of childhood to teach children that right must be the foundation of all might, that authority can be exercised without the help of fists.
Ellen Key
#93. I'm clenching my fists so tight my fingernails leave red crescent moons on my skin. I feel a surge, a heat roar up inside me. As bad as I'm hurting now, he'll hurt ten times worse. That's the only thing that keeps me going.
Jenny Han
#94. I will never stand for a national anthem again. I will turn my back and I will raise a fist.
Jesse Ventura
#95. He was WBC champion, I was mandatory. He had his opportunity to earn big money and defend against me, and he chose not to. It's as simple as that. He did not want to fight 'The Cobra', cos he knew he was probably going to get one of these (his fists) on the chin and it was going to be all over.
Carl Froch
#96. Sticks and stones and fists CAN break your bones, but it's the words that break your heart.
Mia Sheridan
#97. Listen, Bruce Lee fought out of anger. That's why they call it the 'Fists of Fury.' Michael Jackson danced with fury. I do stand up out of fury. I'm not mad at anybody. I'm not mad at any human being because I'm a human being.
Tracy Morgan
#98. And when I pray, I shall ask the Lord in heaven whatever happened to my father's ethics - or did he never have any?"
Henry leapt to his feet and pounded both fists on his desk in rage.
"You little idiot!" he roared. "I never had any!
Elizabeth Gilbert
#99. He walked out on the beach to the edge of the light and stood with his clenched fists on top of his skull and fell to his knees sobbing in rage.
Cormac McCarthy
#100. Would you rather I found you a place of your own right away?" "It doesn't matter." "Which would you rather do?" The effort of decision brought her out of her torpor. She made fists and her lips tightened. "I guess I have to be with you.
John D. MacDonald
